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Munroe Street 12.pdf Follow Massachusetts Historical Commission Survey Manual instructions for completing this form. FORM B − BUILDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES BUILDING 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Photograph Topographic or Assessor's Map Recorded by: Jayne Bernhard-Armington Organization: Pioneer Valley Planning Commission Date (month /year): June, 2010 Assessor’s Number USGS Quad Area(s) Form Number 38B-093 Easthampton NTH.1018 Town: Northampton Place: (neighborhood or village) Address: 12 Munroe Street Historic Name: Thomas M. and Catherine Kiley House Uses: Present: Two family Original: Single family Date of Construction: 1894-95 Source: Registry of Deeds & Atlas Style/Form: Queen Anne Architect/Builder: Exterior Material: Foundation: Brick Wall/Trim: Vinyl Roof: Asphalt Outbuildings/Secondary Structures: Major Alterations (with dates): Asphalt roof replaced slate roof post 1980 Vinyl siding replaced clapboard siding and decorative wood shingles. Condition: Good Moved: no | x | yes | | Date Acreage: 0.11 acres Setting: House sits very close to the street in an established residential neighborhood of former single family homes. House has a few shrubs in the small front yard. INVENTORY FORMB CONTINUATION SHEET [NORTHAMPTON ] [12MUNROE ] MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Area(s) Form No. 220MORRISSEY BOULEVARD, BOSTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02125 Continuation sheet 1 NTH.1018 _X__ Recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. If checked, you must attach a completed National Register Criteria Statement form. Use as much space as necessary to complete the following entries, allowing text to flow onto additional continuation sheets. ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION: Describe architectural features. Evaluate the characteristics of this building in terms of other buildings within the community. This is a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne home with multiple gables to form a modified cross plan. Similar to its next door neighbor at 10 Munroe Street, the front gable caps a two-story, three-sided bay at the southwest corner of the front façade. Also both houses have similar front porches with turned posts, spindle frieze, and a balustrade although this porch does not wrap nor does it have a pedimented gable. On the southeast corner of this house is a three-story tower with pyramidal roof. There is also a hipped roof dormer on the southwest elevation of the house. This house has lost much of its original architectural features since the home was first inventoried in 1980. Vinyl siding now covers the entire façade, erasing the home’s decorative fish scale shingles that once graced the gables, the third floor of the tower and the wide band of trim that separated the first and second stories of the house. The original windows have been replaced and original surrounds covered. The slate rood has also been replaced by an asphalt roof. Off the northeastern elevation of the home is a two-and-a-half story ell. On the northwest corner of the rear ell is a two story stacked porch with shed roof. The home has a brick chimney on the main block of the house and there is also a chimney near the ridgeline of the rear ell. The house rests on a brick foundation. HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Discuss the history history of the building. Explain its associations with local (or state) history. Include uses of the building, and the role(s) the owners/occupants played within the community. From Form B of 1980: “In March 1894, Thomas H. Kiley sold part of his homestead to Thomas M. and Catherine Kiley and a house was built by the time of the 1895 Atlas. Thomas Kiley is listed as working for the Boston & Maine RR and living at 27 State Street in 1895 and 1905, so this probably never served as his residence.” John and Kathleen O Neil owned this house when it was first inventoried in 1980 and continue to own the house at the time of this writing in 2010. BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES Beers, F. W. County Atlas of Hampshire Massachusetts, New York, 1873. Hales, John G. Plan of the Town or Northampton in the County of Hampshire, 1831. Miller, D. L. Atlas of the City of Northampton and Town of Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, 1895. Walker, George H. and Company. Atlas of Northampton City, Massachusetts, Boston, 1884. Walling, Henry F. Map of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, New York, 1860. Registry of Deeds: bk 465-P. 282, 468-323, 617-469. Northampton Directory: 1895-96, 1905